Wow, we’ve had a great response to this discussion during Pi Day 2008. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts about memorizing digits of Pi. We’re going to close this discussion for now, but a new one for Pi Day 2009 will open up next year.
3.
(14159265358) = what I’ve known for years
(979323) = nifty little palindrome pair
(846264) = a tricky even sequence
(3383) = 4 3’s with an 8 in the 3rd place? I’ll take it!(27950) = I have know I idea why, but these 5 digits work easily for me and have no significance whatsoever!
(2884) = another even sequence, all powers of 2
(1971) = my birthday
(693993) = multiple of 3 sequence
(7510) = 75 and 10 multiples of 5
(5820) = a dyslexic mile
(974944) = a fairly easy 9 sequence for me
(5923078164) = all ten digts used exactly once, scrambled(06286208) = the quirky 0628 sequence which gets anagrammed(998) = stuck in this 0628 sequence
(6280) = another anagram of 0628
(34825) = a fairly easy 5 digit pattern
(34211) = another easy pattern with the 34’s taking the lead again
(70679) = a nice finish to the first 100 digits!…
I know around 190, and aim for more. If I could just remember 176451 decimals, I would get the next 6 for “free”, since the first 6 digits then is repeated for the first time. (314159)
If I continue, and reach my goal of memorizing 17387594880 decimals, I would get even more for free, since the next 10 digits then will be 0123456789. :-)
But that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? …to get the digits for free by connecting them to stories or sequences you already know. If you for instance know Eulers number e, and are able to memorize 45111908393 digits of pi, the next 11 digits would be the start of e. (27182818284)
That may be aiming too high, but let’s say you could memorize all those digits. Then, to prove it, if spending 1.5 seconds to pronounce each 10 digit (0.15 sec/dig), you would need more than 200 years without sleep or pauses to tell someone what you knew. I’m happy I only know 190… :-)
PI is fun!!! Memorizing it is like walking into a deep cave or similar. You always wonder what comes after the inner place you know…
I have memorized 1,200 digits of pi. I replaced all two digit numbers up to one hundred in my head with pictures representing those numbers. I then tie two pictures together for a 4-digit number such as 1415 and . I then link them together to create a story. I can easily recall all 1,200 digits. There are only two groups of four digits that repeat themselves within this 1,200 digit number. They are 0921 and 5132.
Alas, only 35 decimal digits. I had to memorize them in 1960 when I was a fraternity pledge at college. I have never forgotten them: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288.
The previous responder, Brooklyn, thinks he’s memorized only 30. Yet, he logged 35 decimal places.
I know I just did this yesterday, but I’ve worked hard all night and now I’ve memorized the first 30 digits. Here they are,
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288
Well, we had a competition in my 6th grade ep math class on who could memorize the most digits of pi. I started preparing early, but I still only got up to 80. This other guy memorized 138!!! Whatever.
i am only 12, i have memorized only about 45, which is not a lot. but this website really has inspired me to memorize more. i am going to start to memorize more right now. thanks guys!
My top was about 140 in high school. I can easily remember about 50 now; with a short review, that goes up to 80. When my son was in 1st grade, he memorized 30 for a talent show, and he’s stuck with that for now.
I once had 463 memorized, in middle school, but then forgot all but 119, which are now hard-wired in my brain, 25 years later. (Not sure why I can still remember “463″…) People approached me at my high school reunion to find out if I still knew pi. Now my 6 year old daughter is into memorizing it, and so we can recite together. She is up to 70. I dole numbers out to her in the same chunks I used to memorize them based on whatever seems to go together:
3.1415 926535 8979 323 846 264 3383 2795 0288 4197 1693 9937 5105 820 9749 4459 2307 816 4062 8620 8998 628034825 34211 70679 8214 80865 13282 3066.
I once got up to 450, but quickly forgot the last 50, and then I have slowly been forgetting more and more, and I realized yesterday that I only knew 371. Although, now that I’ve seen the next 9 digits, I know those as well, so I now know 380 digits.
I first received my introduction to pi memorization on Pi Day of my eighth-grade year. While celebrating by eating pie with my math class, I became insPIred to memorize 60 that day. Over time, I increased to 200 digits. During my sophomore and junior years of high school, my school held pi memorization competitions, which I won with 655 and 875 digits, respectively. I memorized 1,000 digits last year for what was supposed to be the third competition, but it was canceled at the last minute, :(. I definitely don’t have all 1,000 in my memory at present, but could still recite the first few hundred digits or so. I’m sure the remaining digits would come back to me pretty quickly once I get around to relearning them (and yes, I am definitely planning to memorize more, as crazy as that might sound!).
Pi Day has definitely become a celebrated event for me, usually involving the consumption of pi(e) with my family and once with my neighbors. (My mom never would have dreamed that she would ever celebrate something as geeky as Pi Day!) I have a pair of pi earrings, a sweatshirt and a t-shirt which I also wear for the occasion. Over time, pi has also extended itself into other aspects of my life, such as my pi cell phone ringtone wich I use on occasion to my pi-themed e-mail address and screen names. Now, I know that some of you might find this extreme piness at least a bit scary, but I really do find it fun! Oh, and in response to a previous post by Stephanie B, I can also identify different telephone digits by the sounds they make (DTMF tones), although I have never used that ability for memorizing pi. I love having that talent!
And, by the way, happy birthday Albert Einstein, who had the fortune of being born on Pi Day!!
Hello everyone! I am a Sixth Grader at Montgomery Middle School and my Math teacher is Ms.Zisa( for Pre-Algebra). I only memorized about 102 digits of Pi.
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209781640628620899862803482534211706978
By the way, I’m only on 6th grade so i’ll have more than just 107 memorized by the time I get to College. The boy w/ 603 digits is in 5th grade and he beat me!! My friend is in 6th grade too, and we both (girls) got SOOOOO exited because we are given Pi T-shirts to the top 2 winners for the grade level. (I got one).
They say on the front “I PREFER PI” which most of you probably know is a palandrone, and it says the official date and time for Pi day
On the back, it says “Irrational, but well rounded” with that and the first 100 digits in a spiral.
It ROCKS!!!
Today was Pi day, so at our school we do a BIG celebration, including testing on how many digits of Pi we’ve memorized. I memorized 107 digits, but my friend got 166. That’s nothing compared to someone else in my school who got 603!!!!! I can’t believe it, and my teacher is a sucker for Pi.
I have memorized to 200 and I recited them to my classes today in honor of Pi Day. Then we ate lots and lots of pie. 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884- 19716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211- 706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111- 745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196.
I did the first hundred when I was thirteen and still, 24 years later, I can rattle them off in about 14 seconds. The second hundred, which I memorized last week, takes a little longer to recite. The second hundred isn’t nearly as poetic as the first hundred.
at 1:59:26 I yelled “PI RULES!!!” because at that time on this day, my watch reads. 3-14 1:59:26 which is pretty close to pi.
here’s what I have memorized. (nerds rule too).
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209 7494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214… sumpthin past there.
I’ve memorized 105 digits and today I said them for my math class at school.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628634825342117067982148
When I was in high school, I memorized it to fifty places. However, now that I’m a software engineer, I find knowing the powers of two up to 16,777,216 is more useful.
Stephen Philbrick asks:
By the way, you say that Pi day is celibrated around the world today, but in most parts of the world, today is 14/3.
The appropriate day in Europe is the 22nd of July.
For credit, explain why, for extra credit, explain why it is even better than 3/14.
There are a number of answers for this one.
A) In the European calendar, 3/14 does not exist. Unless, of course, someone has the 13th and 14th months hidden somewhere and forgot to tell the rest of the world.
B) 3/14= James Bond (aka 0.071428571428571428571428571428571 - it’s interesting that after .007 the number simply repeats 142857); Hence, 3/14 /= Pi.
C) In reality, I believe the question was supposed to be ‘Why would July 22nd be a better representation of pi?’. That would be because 22/7 (22nd of July in Europe) is the actual value of pi, whereas 3.14 is an approximation.
Only 38. A couple co-workers and I have brought pie in today. We’re planning a get together at 3:14 pm in a conference room with the number “4310″. Does anyone know that the mirror image of 3.14 is PIE?
I have 7 digits memorized that I routinely use for calculations (I’m an engineer with the State of California). I wore my pumpkin pi t-shirt (pumpkins in the shape of pi)to work today.
By Alyson, Emily, and Carly Mar 14, 2008 at 10:26 am #
on pi day my math class had a competition of how many pi we could remember.my accomplishment was 422.im still waiting on the results if i got them all right but im pretty sure i did.im 17 in the 10th grade,although i should be in the 12th.(dont ask its a long story)
I memorized the first hundred decimal places while in middle school in 1992. I can still recite them all, even while intoxicated. Yes, I’m great fun at parties.
Each year I host a memorization contest at the High School where I teach…As of this point, (third hour) I have a student who memorized 284 digits, and another with a close second of 238 digits.
8. My initial answer of 8+12-11 was not an incorrect response to the “simple math question” (What does 3+6 equal?). I guess a “simple question” requires a “simple answer” in order to get by your spam protection - so I will change my answer to “9″.
today in school we are celebrating pi day. i found this cite will searching for pi facts. i have about 15 digits memorized. i know this kid who has memorized the first 100 by heart. he has a photographic memory though. i am extremely bored. yay pi day!!!:)
in 2004 i was able to recite 2008…. now without thinking i can spout off about 50… but whenever i sit down and look at it for a few minutes, I can easily increase that
for more info on pi check out joyofpi.com
for those asking about how to memorize more… try looking for patterns… or for numbers that make you think of something else such as pieces of a friend’s telephone number, or how old your grandma or baby brother is
On my 60th birthday, my daughter-in-law made a cake that measurd 8 inches by 10 feet. My son the engineer put 60 large candles on the cake using the first 60 digits of pi. After the candles were lit, they led me blindfolded to the table and removed the blindfold. I blew out the candles and then turned to my guests and recited al 60 digits, after which my son turned to my wife and said, “See, I told you I had to get it right, because dad would KNOW.” I could have done all 111 digits that I memorized when I was in college in 1965. Count the letters: Now I, even I, would celebrate in rhymes inept, the great immortal Syracusan rivaled nevermore who in his wondrous lore passed on before left men his guidance how to circles mensurate.
My sister and I are currently memorizing 4 new digits a week, and plan to do so until (at least) the end of the semester. We are currently at 31 digits.
I learned how to memorize Pi using groups of phone numbers! Believe it or not, I can memorize phone numbers by the tone on my cell phone. So, for me, it was like memorizing a song. Just sing the “phone numbers” and I was able to recite 86 places, but then I froze. Oh well, someday I may win a contest with my hidden talent.
i used to know well over 50 (think it was around 70ish) but now only remember the first 26. i wonder if memory fails me or if infinity is eating the decimals up from behind?
I have memorised Pi to 1000 digits. I won’t type them all out here as that would be boring and pointless. I am, however, an amateur mnemonist, so memorising numbers has become second nature to me!
Mm.. I don’t know. Maybe 32? Most of my friends beat me anyhow. I started in the middle of the summer but once I got to high school, I frankly no longer had time.
My daughter, age 12, has memorized 475 digits and is pushing for 600. Anyone know if this is a record for her age group? She will document it tomorrow during her school’s pi contest. Wld be lovely for her public school to get some positive attention during this budget crisis.
I am a sixth grade teacher at Morgan Road Elementary in Liverpool, New York. One of my students has memorized Pi up to its first 100 places. Not bad for a 12 year old.
3.14159265358979323846
haha ya I’m still working on it
I’m in sixth grade
At school, we’re having a contest in our math class for Pi Day.
Another kid memorized 60 digits in 2 periods….about 1 hour each…
that’s 60 digits in 2 hours!
I hope I can get mmore but not likely. :•)
3.1415926535897932486`278905680`95789`65y70`346`593856679474012587542582741027542754247278646266857642520000216151054102121494231940084210579520497597529425624294465505524943194246724647234642142494364316942154515812154215121524514124274418471542123115456456897989789789795845464848498987987551332356454684541546458585431257989189814927988798958369568736494535462562424252222527722527788676990978755461476173917714147872154872199359764976494645466684545454544544454445645645645646456445645646564564464897878978797890123402475148054710000051451861050115684132545205824528524105215155465455455454656454654654654654644444444444445646401560241535118486819417250021101010581225802566565410455348654864548415605015453145814101414415156584501.5414014.141514105040485148786141401525484554545484888451258156554144414546867486215676592349721920694745724551505101418420542150202213684653148641465186415645485418415684186416814645647514108601684151461465156414850219218951895213221903067090790769051561351514256414581485214986128641685651965845841641120123135498789016841354894867414848678451231231146789731564156740184186690140294792547259475947514701476974706047594761476906160570246275
im mad smart…… what about you doubt it
piday:D, lol, when my brother was in 7th grade, the winner got to throw pies on a specific teacher’s face, which also means that you can throw a pie at the headmaster too
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209 yay i love pi day in my school u can throw a pie at a teachers face on Pi day im in 6th grade yay
I LOVE Pi day! Before this year, I never really knew much about about it untill my Pre- Algebra teacher explained. We are having a competition on Pi day and we have to memorize 50 digits of Pi. Whoever memorizes the most, gets a great big pie. He told us that him and his family wake up every year on Pi day at 1:59 in the morning and eat and peice of pie and then go back to bed. I know 60 digits of Pi so far. 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944
learning it to win the school pi day contest, so far Im at 481 decimal digits, learnt that in around 2 weeks, I wanna make it to the Feynman point for the contest.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950
2884197169399375105280974944592307
8164062862089986280348253421170679
82148086513282306647093844609558223
Im only in 8th grade, and i spent 3 hours memorizing all of these 138 digits, for a contast.^.^
I am in 8th grade, if you wanted to know. (You probably don’t care.)
By Someone Who Likes Douglas Adams, But That Has Nothing to Do With Pi Anyway Mar 1, 2008 at 10:22 pm #
You actually only need to know the first ten to calculate the circumference of the Earth fairly accurately, but learning more is a good memory challenge. I’ve memorized thirty-five. 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288. . .
By Someone Who Likes Douglas Adams, But That Has Nothing to Do With Pi Anyway Mar 1, 2008 at 10:20 pm #
I know the first 11 instantly. With a little practice I can get the first 35. I challenge my middle schoolers to memorize digits of pi for a class title on Pi Day.
I’ve memorized 190 digits of pi. I could have been at alot more, but I don’t feel like memoziing every day. Instead, I just memorize Pi once a month or so…
Wow, we’ve had a great response to this discussion during Pi Day 2008. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts about memorizing digits of Pi. We’re going to close this discussion for now, but a new one for Pi Day 2009 will open up next year.
3.1415926535897932384626433832795 memorized it from windows calculator
100 digits and here’s how I remember them:
3.
(14159265358) = what I’ve known for years
(979323) = nifty little palindrome pair
(846264) = a tricky even sequence
(3383) = 4 3’s with an 8 in the 3rd place? I’ll take it!(27950) = I have know I idea why, but these 5 digits work easily for me and have no significance whatsoever!
(2884) = another even sequence, all powers of 2
(1971) = my birthday
(693993) = multiple of 3 sequence
(7510) = 75 and 10 multiples of 5
(5820) = a dyslexic mile
(974944) = a fairly easy 9 sequence for me
(5923078164) = all ten digts used exactly once, scrambled(06286208) = the quirky 0628 sequence which gets anagrammed(998) = stuck in this 0628 sequence
(6280) = another anagram of 0628
(34825) = a fairly easy 5 digit pattern
(34211) = another easy pattern with the 34’s taking the lead again
(70679) = a nice finish to the first 100 digits!…
3.141592653589793… and that’s about it. sorry people but i took pre-algebra last year and we haven’t had pi contests this year!
50
I know around 190, and aim for more. If I could just remember 176451 decimals, I would get the next 6 for “free”, since the first 6 digits then is repeated for the first time. (314159)
If I continue, and reach my goal of memorizing 17387594880 decimals, I would get even more for free, since the next 10 digits then will be 0123456789. :-)
But that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? …to get the digits for free by connecting them to stories or sequences you already know. If you for instance know Eulers number e, and are able to memorize 45111908393 digits of pi, the next 11 digits would be the start of e. (27182818284)
That may be aiming too high, but let’s say you could memorize all those digits. Then, to prove it, if spending 1.5 seconds to pronounce each 10 digit (0.15 sec/dig), you would need more than 200 years without sleep or pauses to tell someone what you knew. I’m happy I only know 190… :-)
PI is fun!!! Memorizing it is like walking into a deep cave or similar. You always wonder what comes after the inner place you know…
I’ve memorized 32 digits in one day.
3.14159265358979323846
I remember 428 digits of pi in the two weeks that i have been studying it
I have memorized fifty decimal places of Pi:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510…
18 That gets me some strange looks in most crowds but I feel like a piker here.
3.14159265358979323846264338327
9541971693993751058209749445902
378164062862089986280348
88 digits
17 digits.
I have memorized 1,200 digits of pi. I replaced all two digit numbers up to one hundred in my head with pictures representing those numbers. I then tie two pictures together for a 4-digit number such as 1415 and . I then link them together to create a story. I can easily recall all 1,200 digits. There are only two groups of four digits that repeat themselves within this 1,200 digit number. They are 0921 and 5132.
Alas, only 35 decimal digits. I had to memorize them in 1960 when I was a fraternity pledge at college. I have never forgotten them: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288.
The previous responder, Brooklyn, thinks he’s memorized only 30. Yet, he logged 35 decimal places.
3.1415926535
3.14159265358979323846264338327952088419716939975105820974944593207816408….I’m still working on it
A competition in 8th grade got me started to just under 200, then I memorized more until I got to around 250.
I have only memberised a little. so here we go!! 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620
I know I just did this yesterday, but I’ve worked hard all night and now I’ve memorized the first 30 digits. Here they are,
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288
remembered pi to 80 decimal places within a week..! am aiming for 100 places by the weekend.
My neice memorized 2,205 digits. It made it in the OC Register newspaper and TV news: http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/huntingtonbeach/article_1999349.php
Well, we had a competition in my 6th grade ep math class on who could memorize the most digits of pi. I started preparing early, but I still only got up to 80. This other guy memorized 138!!! Whatever.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899
I only memorized 60, but my classmates memorized 115, 96, and 70 (in that order–I was fourth place) on Pi Day.
i am only 12, i have memorized only about 45, which is not a lot. but this website really has inspired me to memorize more. i am going to start to memorize more right now. thanks guys!
one for every year of my life on this planet….so 29…
3.1415926
That is all i have memorized so far. I plan on learing a lot more digets soon
3.1415925639
Hey guys! I have 603 digits of Pi and won the school competition and I’m only a 5th Grader!!!
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiWordplay.html
My top was about 140 in high school. I can easily remember about 50 now; with a short review, that goes up to 80. When my son was in 1st grade, he memorized 30 for a talent show, and he’s stuck with that for now.
3.14159265358979323
3.14159265358979323846265338
I once had 463 memorized, in middle school, but then forgot all but 119, which are now hard-wired in my brain, 25 years later. (Not sure why I can still remember “463″…) People approached me at my high school reunion to find out if I still knew pi. Now my 6 year old daughter is into memorizing it, and so we can recite together. She is up to 70. I dole numbers out to her in the same chunks I used to memorize them based on whatever seems to go together:
3.1415 926535 8979 323 846 264 3383 2795 0288 4197 1693 9937 5105 820 9749 4459 2307 816 4062 8620 8998 628034825 34211 70679 8214 80865 13282 3066.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950
Sorry Wes (By wes Mar 15, 2008 at 6:39 am),
You missed a digit. ;)
3.14159265358979323846
One of my 4th grade students memorized the first 314 digits of pi in honor of Pi Day and Albert Einstein’s birthday.
I have memorized about 202…i accidently memorized 2 more after 200 because i looked at them
I once got up to 450, but quickly forgot the last 50, and then I have slowly been forgetting more and more, and I realized yesterday that I only knew 371. Although, now that I’ve seen the next 9 digits, I know those as well, so I now know 380 digits.
3.1415926535897932384626433832795021793
3.141592653589793238462633832795
60 digits, memorized back in junior high and still remember to this day.
3.14159 …hehe :P
I feel humbled by these responses!
I have memorized almost 40
I first received my introduction to pi memorization on Pi Day of my eighth-grade year. While celebrating by eating pie with my math class, I became insPIred to memorize 60 that day. Over time, I increased to 200 digits. During my sophomore and junior years of high school, my school held pi memorization competitions, which I won with 655 and 875 digits, respectively. I memorized 1,000 digits last year for what was supposed to be the third competition, but it was canceled at the last minute, :(. I definitely don’t have all 1,000 in my memory at present, but could still recite the first few hundred digits or so. I’m sure the remaining digits would come back to me pretty quickly once I get around to relearning them (and yes, I am definitely planning to memorize more, as crazy as that might sound!).
Pi Day has definitely become a celebrated event for me, usually involving the consumption of pi(e) with my family and once with my neighbors. (My mom never would have dreamed that she would ever celebrate something as geeky as Pi Day!) I have a pair of pi earrings, a sweatshirt and a t-shirt which I also wear for the occasion. Over time, pi has also extended itself into other aspects of my life, such as my pi cell phone ringtone wich I use on occasion to my pi-themed e-mail address and screen names. Now, I know that some of you might find this extreme piness at least a bit scary, but I really do find it fun! Oh, and in response to a previous post by Stephanie B, I can also identify different telephone digits by the sounds they make (DTMF tones), although I have never used that ability for memorizing pi. I love having that talent!
And, by the way, happy birthday Albert Einstein, who had the fortune of being born on Pi Day!!
Iv’e memorized 40 digits (including the 3)
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197
Oh, and Happy Pi Day! Have some pie(I made it!)
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Hello everyone! I am a Sixth Grader at Montgomery Middle School and my Math teacher is Ms.Zisa( for Pre-Algebra). I only memorized about 102 digits of Pi.
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209781640628620899862803482534211706978
i have memorized 192. digits of pi
By the way, I’m only on 6th grade so i’ll have more than just 107 memorized by the time I get to College. The boy w/ 603 digits is in 5th grade and he beat me!! My friend is in 6th grade too, and we both (girls) got SOOOOO exited because we are given Pi T-shirts to the top 2 winners for the grade level. (I got one).
They say on the front “I PREFER PI” which most of you probably know is a palandrone, and it says the official date and time for Pi day
On the back, it says “Irrational, but well rounded” with that and the first 100 digits in a spiral.
It ROCKS!!!
Today was Pi day, so at our school we do a BIG celebration, including testing on how many digits of Pi we’ve memorized. I memorized 107 digits, but my friend got 166. That’s nothing compared to someone else in my school who got 603!!!!! I can’t believe it, and my teacher is a sucker for Pi.
About 82 digits, if you include the original “3″. Recited them in school today for no particular reason.
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820
97494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651
3282306647093844
I remebered up to that… its kinda fun to watch people’s reactions when I say it randomly in their face :D
3.1415926535897932384626433852798841971
Hi. At my school, we have a big contest. I won. The winner gets a BIG trophy. I memorized 612 digits. It was SO awesome.
32
My father had also memorized pi to 32 digits.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899
Oh yeah I got to hit my teacher in the face with a pie it was fun
I create rational approximations such as 1146408/364913
my favorite is 355/113 which has two 1’s 3’s & 5’s
I have memorized to 200 and I recited them to my classes today in honor of Pi Day. Then we ate lots and lots of pie. 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884- 19716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211- 706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111- 745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196.
I did the first hundred when I was thirteen and still, 24 years later, I can rattle them off in about 14 seconds. The second hundred, which I memorized last week, takes a little longer to recite. The second hundred isn’t nearly as poetic as the first hundred.
does anyone no where to find the really annoying song that is just the digits, no other words?
22/7 isn’t actually an exact value. It is also an aproximation.
at 1:59:26 I yelled “PI RULES!!!” because at that time on this day, my watch reads. 3-14 1:59:26 which is pretty close to pi.
here’s what I have memorized. (nerds rule too).
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209 7494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214… sumpthin past there.
I’ve memorized 105 digits and today I said them for my math class at school.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628634825342117067982148
3.14159265358979323846264
6, if you include the 3 and exclude the decimal place.
3.14159 (it’s a close enough approximation for some uses).
When I was in high school, I memorized it to fifty places. However, now that I’m a software engineer, I find knowing the powers of two up to 16,777,216 is more useful.
Pi is a wonderful source for random digits!
3.14159625897 (12 digits)
3.1415926535
All you have to do is copy and paste it’s that easy HA HA hA HA HA HA HA
3.14592653589793238
I have memorized 70 digits of pi and just recited them to my fifth grade class at exactly 1:59 pm to celebrate Pi Day and Pi minute!
3.141592653589793
An answer to a previous question..
Stephen Philbrick asks:
By the way, you say that Pi day is celibrated around the world today, but in most parts of the world, today is 14/3.
The appropriate day in Europe is the 22nd of July.
For credit, explain why, for extra credit, explain why it is even better than 3/14.
There are a number of answers for this one.
A) In the European calendar, 3/14 does not exist. Unless, of course, someone has the 13th and 14th months hidden somewhere and forgot to tell the rest of the world.
B) 3/14= James Bond (aka 0.071428571428571428571428571428571 - it’s interesting that after .007 the number simply repeats 142857); Hence, 3/14 /= Pi.
C) In reality, I believe the question was supposed to be ‘Why would July 22nd be a better representation of pi?’. That would be because 22/7 (22nd of July in Europe) is the actual value of pi, whereas 3.14 is an approximation.
Is that what you were looking for Stephen?
Only 38. A couple co-workers and I have brought pie in today. We’re planning a get together at 3:14 pm in a conference room with the number “4310″. Does anyone know that the mirror image of 3.14 is PIE?
3.14159265358979
15 and a decimal point
53 DIGITS AND I GOT TO THROW A PIE AT MY MATH TEACHER!
3.1415926535897932384626433832…? some day i’ll have to start memorizing it again…
3,141592653589793238462643383279502882
3.141592653879
3.14159265358
3.14159265387932246264338279502884197
Thats all I can remember!
3.141596535
3.14159265358979323846264338
3.14 that is really all I need to know in school
3.14159265358
3.1415926535897932384643
only 4, but, I have the Magic Number (0.01745329) memorized, which is the number of pi in a degree.
10; I use some form of it it in passwords a lot…
3.14159
I have 7 digits memorized that I routinely use for calculations (I’m an engineer with the State of California). I wore my pumpkin pi t-shirt (pumpkins in the shape of pi)to work today.
We know 6 digits….3.14159.
We’re smart!
haha!
on pi day my math class had a competition of how many pi we could remember.my accomplishment was 422.im still waiting on the results if i got them all right but im pretty sure i did.im 17 in the 10th grade,although i should be in the 12th.(dont ask its a long story)
I memorized the first hundred decimal places while in middle school in 1992. I can still recite them all, even while intoxicated. Yes, I’m great fun at parties.
Each year I host a memorization contest at the High School where I teach…As of this point, (third hour) I have a student who memorized 284 digits, and another with a close second of 238 digits.
Happy Pi Day everyone….
~A Math Teacher in Willow River, Minnesota
over three hundred
8. My initial answer of 8+12-11 was not an incorrect response to the “simple math question” (What does 3+6 equal?). I guess a “simple question” requires a “simple answer” in order to get by your spam protection - so I will change my answer to “9″.
I’ve done 200, but falling out of practice, my brain has retained about 50-something.
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105923
With my twin brother, I’ve memorized twenty-two digits after the decimal point:
3.1415926535897932384626
I’ve memorized more, to tenty-two digits after the decimal: 3.1415826535897932384626…
today in school we are celebrating pi day. i found this cite will searching for pi facts. i have about 15 digits memorized. i know this kid who has memorized the first 100 by heart. he has a photographic memory though. i am extremely bored. yay pi day!!!:)
5
pahah 3.1415
all that’s needed. also my calculator has that handy pi button, yaay.
3.141592653589793238462643383279502
3.141592
in 2004 i was able to recite 2008…. now without thinking i can spout off about 50… but whenever i sit down and look at it for a few minutes, I can easily increase that
for more info on pi check out joyofpi.com
for those asking about how to memorize more… try looking for patterns… or for numbers that make you think of something else such as pieces of a friend’s telephone number, or how old your grandma or baby brother is
6, and that should be enough for everyone. The rest of you are just too fancy for your own good.
On my 60th birthday, my daughter-in-law made a cake that measurd 8 inches by 10 feet. My son the engineer put 60 large candles on the cake using the first 60 digits of pi. After the candles were lit, they led me blindfolded to the table and removed the blindfold. I blew out the candles and then turned to my guests and recited al 60 digits, after which my son turned to my wife and said, “See, I told you I had to get it right, because dad would KNOW.” I could have done all 111 digits that I memorized when I was in college in 1965. Count the letters: Now I, even I, would celebrate in rhymes inept, the great immortal Syracusan rivaled nevermore who in his wondrous lore passed on before left men his guidance how to circles mensurate.
Grandpa G
My sister and I are currently memorizing 4 new digits a week, and plan to do so until (at least) the end of the semester. We are currently at 31 digits.
I learned how to memorize Pi using groups of phone numbers! Believe it or not, I can memorize phone numbers by the tone on my cell phone. So, for me, it was like memorizing a song. Just sing the “phone numbers” and I was able to recite 86 places, but then I froze. Oh well, someday I may win a contest with my hidden talent.
Happy Pi Day!
3.14159263589732
31 and I’m working on more. The trick is to add two or three at a time to the #s you’ve already got down.
50 digits.
By the way, you say that Pi day is celibrated around the world today, but in most parts of the world, today is 14/3.
The appropriate day in Europe is the 22nd of July.
For credit, explain why, for extra credit, explain why it is even better than 3/14.
530 digits, yeah! Happy pi day
I have memorised these 9 digits:
3.243F6A88
If I spend some time I can work out 34 digits from that:
11.0010 0100 0011 1111 0110 1010 1000 1000
300 when I was 12 years old, now I´m 42 and can only remeber 50…
I have memorized 27 digits of pi 3.141592653589793238462643383! Happy Pi day :)
i used to know well over 50 (think it was around 70ish) but now only remember the first 26. i wonder if memory fails me or if infinity is eating the decimals up from behind?
I have memorised Pi to 1000 digits. I won’t type them all out here as that would be boring and pointless. I am, however, an amateur mnemonist, so memorising numbers has become second nature to me!
3.14159265358979323846264
All through the medium of song… they should make the chorus bigger!
i have memorized the first 60 numbers but i am trying to memories the first 100
3. 14149265353238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307
Mm.. I don’t know. Maybe 32? Most of my friends beat me anyhow. I started in the middle of the summer but once I got to high school, I frankly no longer had time.
*sings*
Pi, pi, mathematical pi
3.14159
26535897
93238462
64338327 (not rounded)
That’s 30.
Back in high school I learned around 80 digits, but now I only remember 60.
22/7. yep that’s right I just approximate!
15 how do i memorize more digits-this site should have a list of ways to memorize pi
So far, I’m up to…240 something!
3.141592653589793235462643383279502884197169…
Eh, I’m too lazy to type it out. ^I think that was like 40 something..?
HAPPY PI DAY! :]
3.145192653
6 years back i was bored in study hall in highschool…i memorized 95 digits of pi, within’ my 2 periods of class…and could write and recite them…
could…
I can do about 30 now… *eep*
In base pi, I know all of them.
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058029
I’m doing this for extra credit in my Algebra 2 class and so far this is all I have.
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197
3.1415926535897932
for me that is a lotttt.
(i’m not very good at memorizing
3.14159265358979323846264338327
3.141592653589793238462643833!!!! That’s 27 digits! I knew about half of those until we had a contest in math class.
3.14159265358979. That’s 15 numbers. Most learned from a calculator’s display.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716993993751058209749445923078164062862
3.14159236
Hi im Kayle and i have memorized 220 digits of pi in just 4 days..im still working though!! I am so exited ! I <3 Pi
About two years ago I memorized the first 30 digits. I still remembered the first 15 or so.
3.1415926535897
i remember 90 nubers of pi
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841
That’s all. I could memorize more if I had time to learn them and if I wanted.
3.1415926535
3.1459
My daughter, age 12, has memorized 475 digits and is pushing for 600. Anyone know if this is a record for her age group? She will document it tomorrow during her school’s pi contest. Wld be lovely for her public school to get some positive attention during this budget crisis.
3.14159265358979323 thats the 18 digets i know i wish i knew more though
I’ve memorized up to the 45′th decimal place
Sixty-three. Someday I’ll reach the hundred.
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399
3.141592653589732384626433827950288
I once recited pi to 834 decimal places for a competition
Im in 6th grade and I beat most of you guys… 312 digits
All 10. I know 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 by heart. Next week I will start working on the order of their appearance.
3.141592654
I am in 6th grade and I have memorized 32 digits of Pi:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795
my friend memorize 650 or something digits:D took a while.
3.141592653589792328462 welp thats it
celebrate pi on march 14th at 1:59pm exactly 26 seconds it is known as “the pi moment.” (:
3.141592653589793
i memorized the first 70 didits in 1 hour!
3.141592653589793238462643383274
3.1415926
i know 660 digits for Pi
3.14
3.1415926535897932384624338327850288419726
50
3.14159
3.1415926535 ect. I have memorized pi to 900 places and can’t go any farther!
3.14159265354
i have memorized 578
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399
yes i’m down there
46 digits babbyy
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628
3.1459667854212222
I am a sixth grade teacher at Morgan Road Elementary in Liverpool, New York. One of my students has memorized Pi up to its first 100 places. Not bad for a 12 year old.
i have memorized each number on the time that my mom cooked my platanos and salami!its time 3:45 bye!
i have memorized each number on the time that my mom cooked my platanos and salami!
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288
b4 today i new it as 3.14 or wat ever the calc gave me
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078
About 67! =)
3.14159265359
that’s it!
3.14159265358979323846
haha ya I’m still working on it
I’m in sixth grade
At school, we’re having a contest in our math class for Pi Day.
Another kid memorized 60 digits in 2 periods….about 1 hour each…
that’s 60 digits in 2 hours!
I hope I can get mmore but not likely. :•)
I have memorized Pi to eighty decimal places.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899
My name is Andrew and I’m in 7th grade and I have memorized 120 digits of pi in2 weeks.
3.14159265365
150
10 digits
3.1415926535897932384626433832795024197 thats 40 digits and im in 6th grade. I DIDNT COPY AND PASTE THESE DIGITS
most of youz prbly copied the digits of the internet
3.14159265358979323
3.1415926535897932486`278905680`95789`65y70`346`593856679474012587542582741027542754247278646266857642520000216151054102121494231940084210579520497597529425624294465505524943194246724647234642142494364316942154515812154215121524514124274418471542123115456456897989789789795845464848498987987551332356454684541546458585431257989189814927988798958369568736494535462562424252222527722527788676990978755461476173917714147872154872199359764976494645466684545454544544454445645645645646456445645646564564464897878978797890123402475148054710000051451861050115684132545205824528524105215155465455455454656454654654654654644444444444445646401560241535118486819417250021101010581225802566565410455348654864548415605015453145814101414415156584501.5414014.141514105040485148786141401525484554545484888451258156554144414546867486215676592349721920694745724551505101418420542150202213684653148641465186415645485418415684186416814645647514108601684151461465156414850219218951895213221903067090790769051561351514256414581485214986128641685651965845841641120123135498789016841354894867414848678451231231146789731564156740184186690140294792547259475947514701476974706047594761476906160570246275
im mad smart…… what about you doubt it
3.14159265358979323846254338327950288419716939937510
I memorized 3.14159265358979323
3 point 1415926535-8979-323-846264-338-3279-502-884-1971-69399-37510-58209-74944. I memorize them by spliting them into groups.
3.141592653589793 and still memorizing more
3.1415926535
3.141592653589793238462643383279
we have a contest at school, on pi day, to see who can remember the most
piday:D, lol, when my brother was in 7th grade, the winner got to throw pies on a specific teacher’s face, which also means that you can throw a pie at the headmaster too
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209 yay i love pi day in my school u can throw a pie at a teachers face on Pi day im in 6th grade yay
3.14159265358979
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841
I LOVE Pi day! Before this year, I never really knew much about about it untill my Pre- Algebra teacher explained. We are having a competition on Pi day and we have to memorize 50 digits of Pi. Whoever memorizes the most, gets a great big pie. He told us that him and his family wake up every year on Pi day at 1:59 in the morning and eat and peice of pie and then go back to bed. I know 60 digits of Pi so far. 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944
3.14
3.141592653598793238462643383279502
3.141569262
I totally forgot about zero. Going to have to start over.
18 trillion, but I’ve learned them in ascending order:
1111111111111111111111111 … 1112222222222222222 … 223333333… and so on.
i have 1049 digits of pi memorized!! i have been working on it for 2 years now.
How many pi digits do i have to remember.
3.14159 …I’m in college
I’m in Grade 6 and have memorized 56 digits of pi. :D
I memorized 21 digits. 3.141592653589793238462…
30 digits of pi :(
3.14152965357989
plus, I’m in 5th grade
I memorized 330 digits in 5 days, but I am trying to do more.
I haven’t memorized anything but wow. Josh is amazing.
I have only memorized this : 3.14159265358 and i am only in 7th grade but memorized it in 2 min.
126 places. The song by “Hard and Phirm” was instrumental in my learning process and I’ve still got some more to go. Pi Day is Friday..ha ha ha
3.14159 and im only in the 15th grade!
3.1415926535897932
and i’m only in the 6th grade… and that only took 5 minutes!
So far im up to:
3.1415926535897932
pi day is going to be so cool at school march 14th! everyone is demanded to bring a pie, theres going to be one hell of a pi eating contest!
I know only a few digits of pi after the decimal: 3.14159265358979. That’s fourteen digits. And to think my peers are amazed by fourteen…
im only in 4th grade 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286
3.14159265358
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
im only in 6th grade. 70. 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286
3.14159265358979
65th digit!!!!! WAHOO! lets go for the 100th!
learning it to win the school pi day contest, so far Im at 481 decimal digits, learnt that in around 2 weeks, I wanna make it to the Feynman point for the contest.
I can do 250 rote memorization, and when I think about it, probably over 300. I also memorized a song that is 50 digits worth of mnemonics.
3.141592653589793238463383279502884
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164
062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253
5940812848111745028410270193852110
lol.. 3.14159
hey!! i’m only in 7th grade!!!
I’ve memorized the first 38 or so
3.14159265358979323846
Ummmm…I Know I’ve Memorized The First 35, but Not Sure How Many Now.
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286 208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481 117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233
3.14159265358979323846264338327950
2884197169399375105280974944592307
8164062862089986280348253421170679
82148086513282306647093844609558223
Im only in 8th grade, and i spent 3 hours memorizing all of these 138 digits, for a contast.^.^
3.1415926535
ok i am bad 5 3.14159
27 so far.
3.1415 92653 58979 32384 62643 38
34 so far
3,14159265358979323846264338327950288
I stopped after 50 so I only know
3.14159265358979323846264338329750288419716939937510
I got to 12. Now i just use the pi button on my calculator.
115 decimal digits!
I am in 8th grade, if you wanted to know. (You probably don’t care.)
You actually only need to know the first ten to calculate the circumference of the Earth fairly accurately, but learning more is a good memory challenge. I’ve memorized thirty-five. 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288. . .
I know the first 11 instantly. With a little practice I can get the first 35. I challenge my middle schoolers to memorize digits of pi for a class title on Pi Day.
im gonna go get sum pie.
i guess thats alot….
im in 7th grade!
3.141592653589793238462643383279
18 and still going (just started)
i’ve memorized up to 103 for a contest we’re doing. im in 9th grade!
;)
I memorized 10 so far! =)
3.1415.. lol.
one million =)
none……………what is pi????
all of the numbers
3.1415
What’s cooler? Pi or Pie?
(I say Pi all the way!)
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209
3.14159265358979323846264338
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841716
3.1415926535897932384626
3.14159265358979323846
3.141592653
i like pi….
apple pi, chocolate pi, cherry pi, boston cream pi, chicken pot pi, pumpkin pi, mud pi, etc.
3.14
=D
I got to over 600 decimal places when I was in grade 12. I’m currently in my third year in university and I only know about 30-40 now. :(
3. im awesome!
ive memorized 0 digits
3.14! so awsome!
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209
I currently have pi memorized to the 55th digit! It is the bomb! i am going to celebrate pi day by having fun!!
20th, which is 3.14159265358979323846
so far i memorized 66
3,14159265358979
113 digits including the 3.
90 digits:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749443078164062862089986280348
1 million digits. And I am 12.
28 digits, from a Chinese poem.
3.141592653589 and I don’t know why…
60 digits. My 6th/7th grade math teacher had a poster of pi to 60 digits on the back of her room and I was really bored.
3.141592653589!!!
3.14
ha i know that totally not a lot right?
3.141592 something? I swear I didn’t cheat!
15 - working on more
I’ve memorized 190 digits of pi. I could have been at alot more, but I don’t feel like memoziing every day. Instead, I just memorize Pi once a month or so…
It’s fairly easy for me…
i dont have any memorized .
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
:D
3.1415926543212734
A LOTTTTTTTT:]
-gowa
I have fifty and working on a hundred. My math teacher made me show everyone in class last week. Meh
I have 15 digits memorized, but at one time I probably had twenty or thirty.